Big money on Kentucky Downs turf in weekend horse racing

Sept. 4 (UPI) — Kentucky Downs’ really big-money races and some hot events for 2-year-olds compete on the weekend horse racing calendar that also includes a foreign docket — the Arc previews in France, the start of Hong Kong’s season and Korea’s biggest day of horse racing.

Turf

Ryan Moore makes a first-ever appearance at Kentucky Downs on Saturday with his best chance to snag a winner, Causeway, in the $3 million Grade II Nashville Derby.

The Wootton Bassett colt won four straight races for Coolmore and trainer Aidan O’Brien before finishing a distant seventh in the Group 1 Grand Prix de Paris in his last start, which came on soft turf…

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